NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 369 391
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +157
Contract jobs citing NFS 7 12 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.076% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.74% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 16
10th Percentile £535 £478 £518
25th Percentile £569 £481 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -15.14% -15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £660
90th Percentile - £523 £763
England median daily rate £600 £501 £588
% change year-on-year +19.88% -14.81% +11.90%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,637 1,631 2,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.39% 10.38% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,081 1,561
10th Percentile £313 £263 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 24
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.30 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.64 £25.56
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -45.71% +39.17%
75th Percentile £25.47 £85.00 £65.03
90th Percentile £42.75 £106.90 £75.88
England median hourly rate £37.73 £43.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.44% +7.71% +58.42%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS job vacancy trend in London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in London over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in London

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 2 £650 +29.87%
NFS
England

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
1 4 (57.14%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Database Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) DBA
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Clustering
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) API Integration
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Kernel Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Security Hardening
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) AWK
3 2 (28.57%) sed
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas File System
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) GPFS
3 1 (14.29%) Ceph
3 1 (14.29%) iptables
3 1 (14.29%) KVM
3 1 (14.29%) Lustre
3 1 (14.29%) Samba
3 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) QRadar
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
4 1 (14.29%) SELinux
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 4 (57.14%) CyberArk
2 4 (57.14%) Qualys
2 4 (57.14%) SaltStack
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle